N-A-E-B news-letter (December 01, 1948)

N-A-E-B

NEWS - LETTER

^piTORIAL OFFICE

James Miles
Station WBAA
Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS

Representing non-commercial, educational AM and FM radio stations, workshops, and
production centers, owned and operated by colleges, universities and
public-service agencies.

STUDY DIRECTOR

Dallas W. Smythe
Communications Research
Institute

Illinois University
Urbana, Illinois

December 1, 1948

FCC HAS NO PLANS FOR EDUCATI O NAL TV RE SERVATIONS

Doctor Herold C. Hunt, General Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools has
received the following communications from Hr. T. J. Slowie, Secretary of the
Federal Communications Commission: "This will reply to your letter of November 16,
194& inquiring what 1 consideration has been or will be given to educational groups
desiring to operate their own television stations.

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"The Commission does not have under consideration any pro posal t o reserve any
; j j channels for the exclusive use of educational stations. Educational organizations

|j are el igibl e of course to compete with other applicants for the availab le commer -
* i1 cial channels" .

At the re-allocation hearings which will be held in Washington in the near future,
the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, the Association for Education
by Radio, and the Association of Land Grant Colleges are presenting resolutions
to the FCC asking that certain TV channels be reserved for educational purposes.
Such a reservation was made in the FM band, but the FCC is reported to have been
disappointed in the fact that educators have not been too quick to avail themselves
of the facilities set aside for them.

TELEVISION NETWORK TO LINK HALF OF UNITED STATES

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company says a television network linking
the east coast to the Mississippi river will be available on January 12th,

Thus, almost half the nation and more than half of the country ! s population will
be included in the potential television network audience. The extended television
horizon will be made possible through the completion of new coaxial cables, which
carry the television signals as well as telephone communications.

The A-T-and T says all major broadcast companies and UPIX, the New York Daily news
station, will cooperate in the inaugural show on January 11. The company says
the networks will become available for regularly scheduled television service
the next day.

Through the network, 14 major cities will be linked. They include Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo,

Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis,

Television engineers predict coast-to-coast television neti/orks, possibly by 1950,

PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER EXECUTIVE SECRETARY GENERAL COUNSEL

RICHARD B. HULL JOHN DUNN W. I. GRIFFITH MORRIS S. NOVIK MARCUS COHN

WOI, Iowa State College WNAD, U. of Oklahoma WOI, Iowa State College Room 370, 630 Fifth Avenue 51 7 Evans Building

Ames, Iowa Norman, Oklahoma Ames, Iowa New York, 20, N. Y. Washington, D. C.

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TELEVISION'TOPICS

RESTR ICTIONS ON THE U SE OF TELEVISION FILM S have been demanded by the A-Frof-L
Screen Actors Guild. They fear the new medium may turn into what they call a
Frankenstein monster. The Guild says thousands of TV movies would cut acting
wages and reduce employment of actors unless their use is regulated by collective
bargaining contract.

TELEVISION STATION U-H-E^N BEGAN BROADCASTS NOVEMBER 29 . Owned by the Meredith
Engineering Company WHEN-TV is directed by Captain W, C, Eddy, television pioneer.

AN ESTE ATED TUP -MILLION PERSONS SAU TE E OPENING N IGHT. PRESErEATIOJT pF.lLQTBII,E n

broadcasting from the Metropolitan Opera House by ABC over the company’s East
Coast Network. Black and white version failed to catch the glitter of colorful
costumes, but viewers, thousands of them for the first time, not only saw opera
but had an intimate backstage glimpse of interviews with Met artists and officials
denied to the celebrity studded audience out front. Illumination was by "black
light." Music came through brilliantly. Met officials expressed the belief TV
would popularize opera the way radio did concerts.

1QQQ TV STATIO NS in 7 to 12 Y EA RS IS THE PREDICTION OF FCC CHAIR MAN COY. In 1946
there were 6 TV stations and 6500 TV receivers. In 1948 there are 42 TV stations
and 718,000 TV receivers in use. The FCC expects 400 TV stations to be on the air
in 1950, and a coast-to-coast TV network in operation by 1952. Estimates of 1949
TV receiver production range from 2,500,000 to 4j000,000.

TELEVISION STATION UBKB MILL START A NEW TYPE M R/S PROGRAM. SOON presenting Associated
Press news directly on the screen as it is received on a new type ticker printer. ■ -
Printed tape will be dravm across the TV screen, unaccompanied by sound initially,; -
Later system of bells to denote stories varying in importance will accompany visual ^
presentation of news. Up to now-news has been presented by means of off-the-screen
voice reading while still pictures or blank screen confronted viewer. However, TV
watchers state they prefer to read news themselves.

TV A TOOL OF TI LE RI CH??

A warning that television, which may wipe out sound radio, is likely to land in
the laps of millionaires, came from Morris L. Ernst, N.Y. attorney, who laid
the matter before the House Small Business Committee recently as one for ser¬
ious consideration.

"Let’s take a look at television," he said, during his rambling dissertaion as
witness. "It may^ipe out everything else in the field of radio and otherwise.
There may be 1000/stations in America ultimately."

"You know how much it costs? You'must have a million dollars. And it is that
medium that is going to control ultimately what I think may be the transmission
by either of the spot news and opinion of America."

"I don’t believe that it is going to take the place of films, in the sense of
feature pictures. But who is going to own those 1,000 pipelines? How many
people and how much diversity can there be—whon we are speaking of people in
America who have millions of dollars?"

"Take a look at the people who are in there. They are not evil. But they are-
the people with a million dollarsj that is all."--VARIETY

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UHF MOVE FOREC AST BY COY IN CHICAGO VIDE O ADDRESS

Opening of ultra-high frequency channels to commercial television in the near
p. future was predicted in Chicago in mid-NOvember by the best-qualified person in

the country, FCC Chairman TT ayne Coy, Speaking at a special TV luncheon of the Rotary
Club of Chicago, Coy said the Commission "is studying the possibilities of adding
more channels, employing those in a higher part of the radio spectrum. He are now
holding conferences with industry leaders to determine if equipment can be
developed to operate in this upper region. I predict that we are going to be able
to add those higher channels soon."

The luncheon was attended by nearly 1,000 persons, including most of top Chicago
executives of the four networks, and presided over by Alfred J. Barboro, president
of Rotary Club of Chicago, who introduced I. E. Showerman, NBC.

Regarding the question of obsolescence of present receivers in the event of the
institution of UHF channels, Coy said, "Several manufacturers have assured us that
when additional channels are added, they will be able to produce adaptors at reason¬
able prices that will enable the present sets to time in the new stations."

Sees Coast-to-Ooast Tele Soon

Within two years, the Chairman estimated, coast-to-coast tele will be a reality with

about 400 stations in operation. "My opinion is that we will have 1,000 stations

on the air in seven or eight years from now," he added.

Dubbing TV the "most powerful, most effective and the most profitable medium for
mass merchandising yet devised,"Coy said the medium in the long run will ;i serve
to create larger advertising expenditures" for all media despite a possible
"temporary loss of advertising volume by one medium or another" to video.

The other media, however, will have to make widespread changes because of the compe¬
tition for the advertising dollar, Coy said. "As television progresses, persons
conducting both television and sound stations will, I believe, abandon the latter
to concentrate on the former because of the incompatability of the two services
under one management. Sound broadcasting in the metropolitan areas will always
be necessary to supplement television. In the rural areas it id.ll be expanded,"
he said.

MEMBERS OF THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY 1ST IN NEW YORK THIS MONTH for the fourth
annual conference of the Television Broadcasters Association. Members of the in¬
dustry from all over the country heard FCC chairman Wayne Coy predict the TV
freeze would soon be off, discussed TV problems ranging from management "do’s
and don’t" to day-time programming problems, concluded TV is a healthy industry,
growing fast, still full of "growing pains", but well on the way out of adolescence
into a predictable maturity.

NEW TELEVISION NEWSLETTER FOR CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL PERSONNEL

"Television News" is the title of a new monthly newsletter, prepared by Lester
J. Schloerb, of the Chicago Radio Council (WBEZ-FM) for the General Superinten¬
dent’s committee for the Study of Television.

A sample mailing of this excellently x/ritten and concise publication, is being
sent to all NAEB members through the courtesy of 1 r. Schloerb. Additional re¬
quests for information about "Television News" should be sent directly to him
in care of Radio Council, WBEZ, Chicago, Illinois

FCC AITFOUHCES HEARING S ON MJLTIPLE OIR1ERSTIIP

The FCC announced that its hearings on a proposed new formula for the limitation
of multiple ownership of broadcast stations will be held here January 17, Limit
for AM stations under common control would bo set at seven, with the limit six
for FM and five for TV stations. The maximum in which stock representing less than
control could be held by a single individual or group would be 14 AM, 12 FM and
10 TV, with these maximums permissible only in the event no controlling interests
are held. Combinations of control and less than control would be on a sliding
scale, with control given tiri.ee the weight of an interest less than control.

Thus, with a total of 10 permissible for TV, a single group might control two sta¬
tions and hold smaller interests in six, or control three stations and hold smaller
interests in form*, etc.

PLi 'rSYLVA r iA RADIO 3T TTDY DI SCLO SES LI3TT I HG PREF ER EHCBS

The Pennsjrivania Agricultural Extension Service has just printed a cooperative
Pennsylvania-USDA study made in Berks, becoming, and Mercer counties to county
agent radio programs. Men are the most frequent listeners among the full-time
farmers with some high school education and ages of 30-35 years. Twenty to 40%
of the women in the three counties are reached in the course of a month—over half
during the year. TJomen prefer noontime broadcasts.

Study shows radio reaches about as many' people who have no contact with Extension
service as it does those who do have such contacts.

Copies of the study may be obtained from Elton Tait, Extension Radio Specialist,
State College, Pennsylvania,

CHICAGO RADIO CCUFCIL IE1.BERS REPORT OH YEAR’S ACTIVI TY

The Chicago Radio Listener’s Council in its initial fall mooting reported first
year activity had been spent on research, background, exploring the field generally
and establishing contacts.

Program chairman, Ruth M. Kogan, indicated group feeling that concentration on only
one of the mass media, e.g. radio, was not enough, no matter how well the job
might be done, since new and equally potent media are taking shape, and will in¬
evitably assume their places.

The Chicago council has volunteer listeners in various areas, checking stations
broadcasts, who report back to the central group, to better enable the members to
achieve meaningful listener participation on both the planning and receiving fun¬
ctions of communication.

ST. LOUIS STATION FIND FM STATION ’’IHSURAITCE ”

Radio Station KXLW was.able to put on an FM broadcast recently, but its regular
AH' station was off the air. Both stations were closed down for a day by an
unscheduled strike of A-F-L engineers who walked out after a dispute over
whether they or disc jockeys should play records over the air.

The FM broadcast resumed the following day from a St. Louis hote],continuing
in the face of the AM silence.

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TELEVISION REPORT—EXPERIMENTAL STATION W-X-B-V--KAN SAS ST AT'. 7 ! COLIEGE

Kansas State College in Manhattan, one of the few pioneers among American colleges
in the field of television, is in the midst of a project that will be of wide inter¬
est in the television field.

Realizing that the cost of construction and operation is one of the factors in the
development of television, Kansas State T s department of Electrical Engineering,
headed by Prof. R. G. Klooffler, is testing the feasibility of providing television
service with a low power transmitter to a small community, at a reasonable cost.

With this objective in mind, members of the Electrical Engineering faculty and
graduate students in the department have built the transmitting and pick-up equipment
of the College ! s experimental television station, WXBV, from war surplus and college
gift material.

In addition, the station provides research projects for graduate students in Electri¬
cal Engineering. And it provides laboratory facilities for use with a four-hour
television course offered by the department.

WXBV is licensed to operate with a peak power of 400 watts, but the maximum power is
not being utilized at this time. The effective radius of its signal is about
seven miles,

•-Operation thus far has been limited to experimental work; lost programs televised
have been aimed at specific audiences and have been quite informal. One such pro¬
gram was presented recently as a demonstration for a group of Kansas newspaper
editors meeting at Kansas State.

Plans calls for the addition in the immediate future of a movie projector so that
16-mm educational films can be added to the live programs. Journalism and radio
speech departments at Kansas State are studying the possibilities of adding courses
in television programming and television news to acquaint students with television
techniques. The Kansas Extension Scrvj.ce plans to experiment in the field of adult
education work through the video medium,

Kansas State first began work in television as a project of its Engineering Experi¬
ment Station and the work has continued to date as a project of this branch of the
college. Construction of equipment was among the early projects of the Electrical
Engineering department in that field* In 1932, the college was granted an experi¬
mental license and began television programs in that year, continuing until 1940*

The war brought a halt to activities temporarily, but construction of a, new station
was begun after V-J day and in February, 1940, a new experimental license was granted.

Professor K. H. Martin, now associated with the Applied Physics Laboratory '.at John
Hopkins University, was in charge of the recent television work, and did much of
the original construction and design of the situation. The current work on WXBV is
being conducted by Kenneth Hewson, Robert Dennison, Wga, R. Ford, and Prof, J. Edmond
Wolfe, all of the Electrical Engineering Staff.

—Robert D. Hilgondorf

Program Supervisor, Station KSAC

TELEVISION WITH YOUR BUS RIDE, TRAIN TRIP, OR CROSS" COUNTRY FLIGHT is predicted
by John Craig, TV manager of Croslcy Division of AVCO, as excellent means of
eljminating passenger monotony and fatigue. Experiments thus far in railway
coaches and airliners have proven successful as well as TV tests on inter-city
busses.

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WNYC ENGINEERING SUPERVISOR TO CHINA FOR FOUR MONTH S VISI T WITH PARENTS

Horn Hong Wei, engineering broadcast supervisor of the Municipal Broadcasting System,
leaves Newark,Airport Monday evening, November 15, for a four months 1 visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Horn Wah Hong of Canton. Nip. Wei 1 s itinerary includes
stops at San Francisco, where he will board a Pan American plane to Hong Kong, by
way of Honolulu, Midway, Wake Island, and Guam, Hr. Wei will be seeing his mother
for the first tine in eighteen years, and his father for the first time in 11 years.

Ir. Wei, who was acting chief engineer for WNYC and WNYC-FK during World War II,
holds the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in communications from the
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and took specialized work at tho RCA Institute.
Throughout the administration of the late Mayor LaGuardia, Mr. TT ei served as the
latter T s engineer on his regular Sunday ”Report to the People”, and supervisied the
engineering set-up for most of the important war-connected special events.

N-A-E-B ATHLETIC PICK-UP EXCHANGE SERVICE

Western Conference NAEB stations have arranged an exchange-service plan to facili¬
tate the problem of making remote pickups from intercollegiate athletic contests
and similar events. Eight of the nine universities in the league (Northire stern
has no station) are signatures to the agreement.

Under the plan the radio station of the institution where the game is being played
will provide engineering help and tho necessary equipment to make the pickup. The
visiting school will supply its own announcer, unless specifically arranged other¬
wise. It will call for and pay for any additional help, such as spotters or
botwecn-halves reporters, which may be needed. This will enable the announcer to
travel fast and light—by piano if desired—without being encumbered with equipment.

All parties to the arrangement have agreed to supply this service for a flat charge
of 315 (except I innesota—,)25) which is expected to be about the actual average
cost of paying for the extra help needed.

In case you want to make a pickup at one of the car puses, and want to make arrange¬
ments, gets in touch with these people.

University of Illinois, WILL, Frank E. Schoolcy
University of Indiana, 'JFIU, II. J. Skornia
University of Iowa, WSUI, Carl Menzer
University of Michigan, WHOM, Waldo Abbot

University of Minnesota, KUOM, Berten A, Holmberg, Chief Engineer
Ohio State University/, WQSU, R* C. Higgy
Purdue University, WMA, Jim Miles
University of Wisconsin, WHA, Bill Harley

Further details regarding the plan and other similar cooperative arrangements may
bo obtained from Harold Engel, Assistant Director, Station WHA, University of
Wisconsin, 1 adison, Wisconsin.

WLSU RECORDS CHILDREN'S CAROLING

Christmas week programming on WLSU, NAEB outlet in Baton Rouge, La., included 6
school choirs brought to WLSU studios for recording. Four hundred children took
part in the singing, reports Ralph W. Stcotlc, Dirccor of NAEB Region V.

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KQAC OREGON’S CMT STATTPH

Tlie Oregon State Broadcasters Association at its mooting last week in Portland
appointed JaF.cs M. Norris, program manager of the state-owned station KOAC, as
executive decretory of the organization. The now appointment of an executive
secretary xor the organization was made folloimlng a report of a special committee
neaded by Lee Jacobs, of stations KBKR, KLBN, and KSRV, named by President Frank
Loggan of KBND, Bend, to study the proposals to affiliate the state broadcasters
association with the Oregon State System of Iiigher Education,

Headquarters for the association will be maintained in the KOAC business office
located in Corvallis and annual meetings of the association will be held at both
the University of Oregon and Oregon State College.

T l 10 ^ 0W / XGCUtive secrotar y Oregon State Broadcasters became a member of the
staff 01 the state-owned station in 192$ and was named program manager of the sta¬
tion 2f years ago. Ir. Morris also servos the National'Association of Educational
broadcasters as western regional director and is Northwest President of the Associ¬
ation for Education by Radio.

PORTLAND PUBL IC S CHOOL K -B-P-S SALUTED EY OFFICE OF EDTT fl ATTm\T

City school station, KBPS, Portland’s NAEB member was hailed as one of the finest in
the country by Franklin Dunham, chief of radio for the U.S,Office of Education in
a recent visit there,

Dunham, on hand to confer with Portland educators, on the use of radio in teaching,
pointed out KBPS, the only AM city-school outlet in the country, was the first
school radio station in the U.S*.and explained success of the local radio plan
because it was shaped to fit the needs of the curriculum,

Dunham pointed out there are m ^ pridian --’65 educational rad io stati ons in the U.S.
of which 35 have sprung up since the last"'war. Many of these, ho said, have shuped
their program after the Portland plan.

With Patricia L. Green,.KBPS director and assistant supervisor of radio in the
public schools,Dunham visited several schools and wa.s guest at a luncheon with
school administrators and Portland commercial station representatives. Miss Cecil
NcKcrchor, president of the Portland Chapter of the AER, arranged a special meet¬
ing for Portland school principals and teachers to hear Dunham’s address on "Utiliza¬
tion of Radio by the Classroom Teacher,"

Dunham.who recently visited Europe, is enthusiastic about the use of radio in
educating Gorman youth. Educational programs arc being aired over many German
stations and a .,>100,000 fund has been raised by the NAB in the U.S. to help pay for
radio receivers in German classrooms.

Franklin.Dunham, chief of radio for the U. S. Office of Education, Washington,
D.C. visited KOAC this past week end. While in Corvallis the radio educator
also attended some oi the sessions of the audio-visua.l aids conference held on
the Oregon State College Campus. It was Ir. Dunham’s first visit to Corvallis
and to the state-owned educational radio station KOAC. Mrs. Dunham was with her
husband on a five-weeks tour up the west coast and returned to Washington, D.C.,
by way ox Denver and Salt Lake City, While in Oregon he also conferred with
radio educators in Eugene and ortland.

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FACSII-ILE AND TELEVISION DOMINATE ST. LOUIS N-A-R-N-D MEET

Nearly 100 radio news editors gathered in St* Louis, No., November 12-14 for the
third annual convention of the National Association of Radio News Directors.

The group included men from seven educational institutions-—Columbia University,
University of Illinois, Iowa State College, University of Lessouri, University of
Kansas, Northwestern University, and the University of Nebraska—and represented
the largest block on hand, with the exception of the strong representation from
Iowa radio stations.

Reaction to such round-tables as "The Small Station Newsroom," "Special Methods of
Municipal Reporting," "Radio-Newspaper Relations" and the like was good, but the
strong facsimile—television overtones of the meeting perked listening ears up
even more.

News editors were told of the success of election coverage by facsimile in Miami,
Florida, ( The Miami Herald ) and at Columbia, Missouri, where the University of
Missouri is operating equipment on loan from the St, Louis Star-Times . Missouri
is experimenting on the typographical aspects of facsimile, to determine which
faces lend themselves most successfully to the publication of the radio-newspaper.

Radio men were assured that facsimile is "not a trick that belongs only in the
realm of the newspaper world," but that it can be successfully operated by an
independent radio station without a newspaper tieup. Facsimile, according to
John T, Bills, of WQA1'-Miami, may bring the daily newspaper to the field of country
journalism, where the weekly has ruled supreme.

Others saw facsimile as an important radio factor in the presentation of statisti¬
cal matter such as market reports. Statistics must necessarily be held to a
minimum in aural broadcasting most radio men agree.

KSD-TV, one of the nation’s most successful television stations from the standpoint
of programming, furnished a convention highlight. Delegates to the confab were
conducted through KSD-TV in small groups while a "live" show was produced,

A television panel was the concluding event of the convention. Held in the KSD-TV
studios, it brought the radio newsmen into the sphere of actual TV broadcasting.

The stations represented by newsmen are in various levels of television planning,,,
ranging from actual broadcasting, through building, on down to primary paper work.
Network and wire service representatives spoke of expanding facilities for tele¬
vision operation, stations now operating television outlets compared notes, and
others came from the meeting convinced that only time is slowing the television
advance. The KSD-TV panel demonstrated the monotony of viewing a newscaster while
ho road 15 minutes of news and in turn showed excellent use of pictures accompanying
news copy.

Special Report by Harry Heath, ISC Dept, Jlsm.
and Robert I-ulhall, WO I News Editor

ARE THEMSS YOUR PROGHAi PROBLEMS ?

Jim Miles, Director WBAA, provides a list of themes used on their Purdue
University station as a start toward a complete listing of possible themes.
Each record is accompanied by the name of the show and a brief description.
He suggests that each HAEB member add to the list. The WBAA list is avail-
able at ITAEB Headquarters,

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COLLEGE OF PACIFIC’S KCVN MARKS YEAR OF PROGRESS-FIRST ANNIVERSARY

From a small room in the Conservatory for a classroom and studio, to a >100,000
FM station--that 1 s the history of KCVN, the College of the Pacific station in
Stockton, California. KCVN recently celebrated its first anniversary with the
completion of "Studio A” in the campus radio building. The poly-cylindrical studio
represents the latest in design for accoustical control.

Special tribute was paid to the man largely responsible for the high standing
of KCVN, Radio Director John C. Crabbo. Before the war Crabbe organized tho
first major curriculum in radio broadcasting in the Nest at the College of the
Pacific. During the war, while serving in the Navy, he dreamed and planned
Pacific 1 s own broadcasting station. Now the station is complete, and more than
170 students are enrolled in the various radio classes. The station is the most
modern and complete broadcast plant in the Stockton area, and the best; at any
educational institution in the Nest, in Crabbe’s opinion.

The station, operating at 91.3 megacycles on the FM band with an effective power
of 3400 watts, was the second in California to bo licensed to a college for non¬
commercial broadcasting. KCVN, on the air daily from 6 to 10 p,m., has a unique
mobile unit to make possible recording or short-wave broadcasting of programs
at great distances. Listeners hear programs from Lake Tahoe Philosophy Institute
and the Pacific Marino Station at Dillon Beach, site of Pacific’s Marine Biology
Station.

Assisting Mr. Crabbe at KCVN arc Assistant Director William H. Ramsey, Chief
Engineer Lee Berryhill, Program Manager Helen Cummings and Technicians James
Jolly and Robert Holmes, Beyond this tho station is student-manned. Over 60%
of KCVN’s programs are live, student-produced shows. Many are carried by other
stations in the San Joaquin Valley.

ALABAMA UNIVERSITY TO GET FM

After hurdling many obstacles, WU0A, the University of Alabama station will
go ahead with FM. A 250 watt Collins transmitter with a Collins two-bay
antenna array at 150 feet will bo used. Graydon Ausmus, director of the
NAEE station and of Region II, hopes that the station will officially open
March 1.

A FOOTBALL GAME INSTIGATED the most thoroughly state-wide broadcast over to
originate in Alabama. The pep rallies on both tho University of Alabama and
Alabama Polytechnic Institute were recorded preparatory to the A.P.I.- Alabama
football game December 4« The program was fed by telephone to three high
powered FM stations. Two additional FM stations picked up the signal and all
five FM: stations and AM stations, plus other FM stations, re broadcast the
signal.

HOPING TO FORM A RADIO LISTENERS’ COUNCIL within the framework of tho Ameri¬
can Federation of Women’s Clubs, Ausmus and Leo Martin, also from University of
Alabama, conducted a conference on radio for the Federation, Subjects included
Educational Radio, Out-Of-School Listening for Children,and Radio Listeners’
Councils.

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FOUR UNI ONS IN THE ENTER T AINMENT FI ELD IEB.GR TO ORGANIZE TV WO RKERS

Four unions made a merger agreement in Hollywood December 14 to control the tele¬
vision jurisdictions of all Unions taking part. The four are: Actors Equity,
the American Federation of Radio Artists, the American Guild of Musical Artists
and Chorus Equity. The merger must be approved by governing boards and member¬
ships of the groups as well as by A.F. of L. International and the Associated
Actors and Artists of America before it l s final 0

ACADEI IC CRE DIT OFFERED ON RU GS UNIV ER SITY OF TH E AIR

Students can listen to the FM radio on the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
campus and get 10 academic hours credit through the KWGS University of the Air,
Classes in Music Appreciation, General Appreciation, Literature and Criminology
are provided.

RECORDING BAN ENDS

Members of James C. Petrillo’s American Federation of Musicians ended their nearly
a year long recording ban December 14. Recording sessions began shortly after a
new 5-year contract was signed between the union and the phonograph record companies.
The agreement was reached in October, but was waiting for a government OK on the
legality of a union welfare fund financed by record royalties. The 2 million
dollar trust, to be administered by Trustee Samuel R. Rosenbaum, was pronounced
legal under the Taft-Hartley Act by Attorney General Tom Clark and Solicitor
William Tyson of the Department of Labor. The fund will be used to hire jobless
musicians to give free public concerts and other Union welfare purposes.

TWO OF THE FOUR RECORD COMPANIES, RCA Victor and Columbia had artists lined up
to start recording the moment the contract was signed. Capitol also planned a
quick start, while officials of Dbcca said they were in no rush. Industry officials
hope the end of the ban will help bring the record business out of a 35% slump
since last year.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN INC R EA S ES FM AUDIENCE

Besides upping their 3 KW transmitter to 10 KW, the University of Michigan
is increasing their audience in a systematic promotion scheme. Under the
direction of Waldo Abbot, a monthly bulletin is sent to every known FM
owner in the primary listening' area. Stacks of the bulletins are placed in
every radio sales room. University Alumni Clubs get copies. The student.-
operated wired radio system carries the WUOM. music to the University dormi¬
tories. Local restaurants carry WUOM music programs during the dinner hour,
and are also given cards announcing that the music comes to them from WUOM.
Commercial stations carry the live music programs with a WUOM station announce¬
ment. Another idea came from a doctor who was so impressed by the December
musical programs that he purchased two FM receivers—one for his waiting room
and one for the ward in his private hospital. The schedule is now mailed
to all known doctors in the area.

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SK011I- TIA APPOINTED N AEB REPRESENTAT IVE TO OHIO COI N ERSNCE

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Dr. Harry J, Skornia, director of radio at Indiana University and director of
NAEB Region III, has been named as NAEB representative to the special Advisory
Committee of the Ohio Institute for Education by Radio, Skornia together with
other representatives from education and commercial radio will meet in Columbus
December 11, to discuss plans for the 1949 Radio Institute at the Ohio State
University. _

KADDERLY ELECTED PRE3IDEFT FARM DIRECTORS

Uallace Xadderly, KGU (Portland) Farm Service Director and former USDA radio director,
was elected president of the National Association of Farm Radio Directors, November
28 at the annual meeting of the association in Chicago. Vice president is Gordon
Loudon of T 7UL, New Orleans and secretary-treasurer is Phil Alampi of UJZ, New York,

NATIONAL COUNCIL TEACHERS OF ENGLISH GIVE RADIO AUARDS

The Theater Guild of the Air (ABC) and the CBS Documentary Unit won the awards of
the National Council of Teachers of English as the ’’best literature on the air"
in the 1947-48 school year. Announcement was made at annual meeting of group in
Chicago in late November.

PI-IPNE INTERVIENS GST BIG PLAY BY STATION S

Recent FCC rule permitting recording ahd broadcasting of telephone conversations
is being put to considerable use by many stations around the country and now comes
UNEU, New York, with a quarter-hour nightjy "Telephone Newsreel” starting December 1.
Another development is a campaign being readied by UOR, New York, to ask the FCC
to go a step further and allow the warning "beep"—every 15 seconds—to be dropped
under certain conditions.

UNEU is programming its "Telephone Newsreel," by which it will cover local,
national and international news via telephone conversation and interviews, as a
result of the imoressive listener response to a similar operation on Election Night
when it had Martin Block phoning political officials all over the world. "Telephone
Newsreel" will be aired Monday through Friday, 8-8:15 p.m,, with George Brooks,

UNEU chief announcer and newscaster, conducting the interviews. Series will be
produced by Ted Cott, directed by Jack Grogan and written by Dick Pack and Bert
Briller. ” _

HANNA RETURNS FROM UNESCO MEETINGS ABROAD

Michael R. Hanna, general manager of UHCU, Ithaca, NAEB outlet at Cornell Univer¬
sity, has returned to his station after a six-weeks 1 absence as UNESCO adviser
in Paris and Beirut.

Mr. Hanna, representing American broadcasters, served as one of 18 radio experts
from as many nations, in developing a proposed mass communications plan for
UNESCO during October and November sessions in Paris.

Subsequently he was adviser to the United tates delegation to UNESCO in Beirut.
His travels took him to Rome and London as well. Mir. Hanna returned to his station
post December 8. He will report on his trip to the NAB Board of which he is a
member.

TECHNICAL COi ITTTEES SET AT IEXIC O M E ET

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Three technical committees were established in November by the World High Frequency
Broadcasting Conference meeting in Mexico City. Tasks ahead include examination
of propagation curves for the entire world, power requirements, signal-to-noise.
ratios, adjacent channel ratios, directional antenna studies, etc. The Priorities
and General Principles Committee have begun their preliminary work.

Scheduled to core before the Plenary Session is the question of Israel’s admission
to the Conference. While the Credentials Committee temporarily admitted Israel
as "observer attached to the United Nations," the Israel Delegation refused to
accept this position.

A committee has been established to set dates and location for the lourth Inter—
American Telecommunications Conference (now tentatively set for Caracas in
February 1949).

The United States Delegation has been augumented by the recent arrival of Kenneth
Norton, Bureau of Standards and William Stone, State Department.

FOUR WOI 51 1 HEADLINE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FORUM

International views on the topic "What About Equal Rights for Women" were aired
this month by Margaret T. Corwin, dean of the New Jersey College for Women of
the New Jersey State University! Nrs. Francis W. Hopkins, president of New Jersey
League of Women Voters 5 Dr. Ida Bobula, director of Sarolta College for Women in
Budapest, Hungary; and Hiss Eva Canbia, member of the U.N. Commission on the status
of women from Uruguay.

Rutgers University Forum programs are released Tuesday nights over 4 New Brunswick
AL and FL outlets and transcribed for re-broadcast over 5 other stations through¬
out the state at a later time.

DEATH TAKES WKAR ST AFF IBI3E R

Robert W. Kamins, 25, news editor and special events director of I ichigan State
College’s radio station WKAR, died Sunday afternoon (November 28) at Sparrow
Hospital in Lansing.

Kamins, who received his B.A. and Hi. A. degrees from 1 ichigan State College, had
been in ill health for several years with a kidney ailment, and had been con¬
fined to the hospital for the past week.

A student announcer at WKAR during his college career, Kamins served as news
editor of station WKZO in 1945-46 before returning to NSC to take work on a
master’s degree. He joined the staff of WEAR as news editor and special events
director in July 1947. He was assistant director of the "Adventures in Music"
"Life on the Farm" programs of WKAR, a product of "THE NEWS AND YOU", and announ¬
cer for various news programs.

A member of Pi Kappa Delta, honorary forensic society, Kanins was, at the time
of his death, district governor of Alpha Epsilon Rho, National honorary radio
fraternity.

He is survived by his parents. Nr* and Mrs. Samuel Kamins and one brother, Arthur^
23, of 1212 Parkview, Lansing. Burial was in the lit. Hope Cemetery at 12 noon
I'onday. __ ___[

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F CC TO H OL D HE ARINGS ON KI.'PC, HOA R, AM D WJR NEWS HANDLING

Hearings on news policies at three stations owned by G„ A. Richards have been
ordered by the FCC to take place at an early date, as an outgrowth of accusa¬
tions aired at Richards by two resigning K1 PC(Hollywood) newsmen earlier this
year. Their complaints (carried in an exclusive story by Billboard) alleged
that Richards had issued specific directives to them and the KIPC newsroom to
eliminate certain stories and to slant others.

By motion of the FCC, WJR(Detroit) and WGAR(Cleveland) were included in the order
directing the hearing. Special counsel has been retained including former
senator, Burton K, Wheeler, and Lewis Caldwell, attorney for CCBS, Clear Channel
Broadcasting Service.

Frank E. Kullen, former HBC vice-president, who was employed as operating head of
the Richards stations shortly after the ..KMPC story broke, while Richards became
chairman of the board, stated in part, "The public service recoras of the three
stations is outstanding in every respect...we are confident that at the public
hearing, which the FCC has ordered to be held, these charges will be shorn to be
without foundation.

PETRIJLO "SITS IN" ON TH E GODF REY SHOW

James Petrillo, president of the AFP, says if musicians talk or sing on the radio,
the AFM and nobody else will see that they get paid for it. The question was
raised after funny-man Arthur Godfrey told his bandsmen not to talk or sing on
his radio program-—he said if they so much as laughed lie would have to pay three
thousand dollars extra. Godfrey said the extra money would 1 e involved because
AFRA would be involved as we11 as AFP.

RUSSIA. ADDS TIME TO U.S. SHORTW AV E "BEAK "

The Soviet Embassy reports in its official publication, the USSR Information
Bulletin that the Red Network has added another program to its American schedule,
raising its daily broadcasting time to this country to 2 hours and 55 minutes
each day. Broadcasts are beamed to this country in English.

The State Department’s "Voice of America” broadcasts to Russia only 2 hours each
day. Department officials state the "Voice" is playing a valuable role in the
cold war with Russia by getting the "true story of America” through the iron
curte.in. Leading credence to this statement are reports that Russia attempts
to jam" our Moscow-bound transmissions.

WEAR "D OOUPBIIE C LUB" AT M I C H IGAN STA TE COLLECT!

by

Faced with increasing competition for listeners\more than 100 other stations
in Michigan (most of them new since the war’s end) Robert Colaman director of
UAEB’s 1 ichigan State College outlet, WEAR developed a number of listener-
promotion plans, including the Bookmobile Club worked out in cooperation with
the Michigan State Library.

With the aid of posters, listing both WEAR and WEAR-EM frequencies, a special
membership card, and a special WEAR button designed to appeal to "small iry",
the project requires each prospective child member to send in a list of five
children’s books he has read with the list signed by parent, teacher, or.
librarian. Initial announcement brought 300 requests, and more are flooding in
and each child becomes a walking promotion piece for WEAR.

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FIRST LISTEN5R-C PETROLLED FM S T ATION GOSS OH A IR IN WASHI NGTON

The Nation*S' first listener-controlled cooperative FI' station went on the air in
November in Washington, This new 20-thousand watt independent outlet is expected
to roach listeners with a 65-mile radius of the capital. Call letters are WCFM,

Although a commercial station, NCFI. plans to pay out "profits” ta its investing,
listeners, chiefly in improved facilities and programs. It is financed primarily
by some two-thousand stockholders who put up amounts ranging from ten to one
thousand dollars each.

Among the groups behind the new project are the League of Women Voters, the Red
Cross, and the ‘-arent-Teacher 1 s Association, These and other participating groups
will be represented on a listener*s council and will act in an advisory capacity
to the station*

PEA 30DY ADDS NEW AWARD CATEGORY

A new award has been added to the George Foster Peabody radio prize list. Addi¬
tion to the so-called "Oscars" of the broadcasting field will be for the most
outstanding program in international understanding. Deadline for entries is
January 8*.

Older Peabody prizes include awards for community or regional welfare efforts by
a local or regional station,outstanding reporting and interpreting of the news,
outstanding entertainment in drama, music, educational programs, and children’s
programs•

Awards are administered by the University of Georgia journalism school with the
aid of an advisory board, and presented each spring in New York,

IOWA STATU TRACKER'S COLLEGE AIRS HEN SERIFS ON WSUI & NCI

Since September 20, 1948, the Iowa State Teacher’s College, in Cedar Falls, has
originated a half-hour schoolroom program every day, Monday through Friday at
2:30 p.m. for broadcast over NAEB Station WOI at Iowa State College in Ames,

On the same date a series of Adult Education features was inaugurated on NAEB
Station WSUI at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. ISTC programs present¬
ed over these outlets are carried by remote lines from the Cedar Falls studio to
the two outlets.

The schoolroom programs offer instruction in vocal and instrumental music,
corrective speech, nature study, the social studies, and children's literature.

In loss than two months, ISTC Radio Office has received over 2,000 requests from
Iowa teachers for the manuals that are used in connection with the "School of
the Air" programs, reports Herbert V, Hake, Radio Director at ISTC, "On the
basis of these requests, and an allowance of only 5 pupils per teacher, the man¬
uals in actual service are accommodating at least 10,000 school children in
Iowa every week," he adds,

"Foremost among the advantages of the present radio outlets," says Nr. Hake, who
recalls an earlier association of the College with various commercial stations,

"is the quality of the audience to which the College now has access. Through
many years of distinguished educational service both W0I and WSUI have developed
a family of listeners which is cordial to the serious type of programs originating
at the College,

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F1A DIRECTORS TO OPPO SE NAB MERG ER

Directors of tho FI. Association, meeting in Chicago December 10-11, discussed
ways and means to strengthen the organisation and voted to oppose the threat
of tho National Association of Broadcasters to absorb FI.A into membership.

Reports that NAB was making a bid for FI A members stirred FN executives in New
York and Washington, Both Nilliam T . r are, FMA president and Everett Dillard,
former FI A president went on record against the move before the director’s meeting.

A spokesman for Ft:A in New York prior to the Chicago meeting declared that absorp¬
tion of the FMA by the NAB would virtually moan the discontinuance of an active
voice in the field of Frequency Modulation.

K. R. SI ITE FORMS NE W TRANSCRIPTION COM PANY

K. R. Smith, formerly vice-president of Muzak, New York, has purchased the manu¬
facturing facilities of the NorId Broadcasting System and formed a new company
for the processing and pressing of transcriptions,

STROMBERG-CAPXSON EXPANDS TV PLANS

Dr. Ray Kanson, president of Stromberg-Carlson stated tho company’s present pro¬
duction capacity of 3000 TV sets per month will be increased to 5000 by mid-1949.
Former assembly linos at the plant are being rapidly converted to television
receiver production. The company’s television station WHTM will beg?jn broadcasts
sometime in the second quarter of 1949 from Pinnacle Hill in Rochester,

SMALLER FCC STAFF LIKELY IN 1949—I ORE SLOW DOWS?????

Rumor from the budget bureau headquarters indicates the FCC may face a financial
cutback next June with consequent cuts in personnel and a further slowdown in
processing of license applications. Same appropriation (06,240,000) would be
made for next fiscal year but that sum would have to take care of an estimated
0440,000 in salary increases this year, thus accounting for cut-back,_ Budget
bureau recommendations are not always final, but President’s recommendation
usually comes as a matter of course.

SUNDAY SHOWS HIT BY CANADIAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS

Protest at the failure of both private and government radio stations to schedule
Sunday evening religious services was contained in a resolution passed by the
executive council of the Church of England in Canada in a recent action. No
church service or other religious program, the resolution stated, is broadcast
over any major Canadian station after 6:00 p.m,

FN coil TTTEE3 NAKED FOR PRESS AND FCC

Appointment of an FM newspaper committee and the re-appointment of a liaison
committee to the FCC was announced this month by William E. arc, president of
FMA. Heading the newspaper committee will be Josh L. Horne, publisher of the
Rocky Mount (F.C.) Evening Telegram and operator of WCEC-FM and heading the FCC
liaison committee will be C. M. Janbky, Jr,, of Jansky, Jansky & Bailey, Washing¬
ton D.C.

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recording WILL START‘ON CUE FROL P5TRILL0

Resumption of commercial recording under tho royalty trusteeship plan endorsed by
both the AFM and the recording industry hin ,os on James C. Petrillo's ordering the
musicians back to work* The U. 3 0 Department of Justice, while declining to
give an opinion on whether or not the trusteeship plan is legal,indicated it would
not prosecute either AF1I or the recording industry if recording is resumed.

WTIC PLEDGES ANNUAL GIFT OF 310,000 TO SY!PHONY

Station WTIC has pledged '510,000 per year for the next three years to the
Symphony Society of Connecticut to help finance the recently reorganized Hart¬
ford Symphony Orchestra,

NEW 50,000 WATT FL NO N-COI LERCIAL STATION IN CHICAGO

Chicago's first and only 50,000 watt FI. s tat ion, WliBI-FN, recently went on tho
air. Since 1943 the 1 ,'oody Bible Institute has operated the station at 1000 watts
in connection with its 5000 watt A1 outlet, WLBI. While the ceiling power allow¬
ed in Chicago by the FCC is 40,000 watts with a 500 foot antenna, WI BI-FI.' was
granted a permit to operate at 50,000 watts because its antenna was only 490
feet high.

Antenna and transmission lino to bo used in tho enlarged station operation wore
invented by WiFi's chief engineer, A. P. Frye and received the approval of tho
FCC. According to Frye, tho WIBI transmitter will carry 10,000 watts and will
actually run at 7,500*watts. However, with the multi-bay antenna which Frye has
invented the power will be multiplied 8 times. Allowing for some line loss, total
ERP will bo 50,000 watts.

The new antenna consists of a total of 32 folded dipoles of copper pipe attached
to the four sides of tho original WMBI tower at intervals of seven and a half
feet. . ' . Using. this antenna gives tho effect of multiplying the power by

eight. „_

TRAN SFER OF VOICE OF AI ERICA” RECChi ENDED BY HOOVER C0UIISCION

Transfer of the State Department's international information program, including
shortwave broadcasting and motion pictures, to an independent Government cor¬
poration, has been recommended by the Committee on Organization of the Executive
Branches headed by former President Herbert Hoover. Such a corporation, it was
proposed would bo given frequent and constant advice by tho private agencies of
the mass communications, through advisory committees representing films, radio,
and press. __

ALABAIA. UNIVER SI TY STUDENTS IAKING SPECIA L STUDY OF RAD IO

Students in the radio department at tho University of Alabama, home of NAEB
station WU0A-FK, are hearing discussions currently of various phases.of the.radio
industry presented by industry representatives. Tho planned scries is a joint
project of the Radio Department of the University and the Alabama Association
of Broadcasters.

Quest speakers thus far have included William Fineshribor, CDS general program
manager; Raymond Gram Swing, former KBS commentator, and many regional representa¬
tives. Radio activities at the University of Alabama arc jointly headed by Leo
Martin, head of Radio Arts Department, and Graydon Ausmus, WTJ0A-FH manager and
director of NAEB Region II.

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FCC APPLICATIONS (AIPL ITUDE i ODIIU TIClfTcOLLRCil

All Applications Accepted for Filing - 1450. KC

Ha r di ng Colle g e. Searcy, Ark.- Construction permit for a new standard broadcast
station to be operated on 1490 kc„, power of 100 watts and unlimited hours of
operation. AMENDED to change frequency from 1490 to 1450 he., power from 100
to 250 watts and change studio location. Contingent on KLXR to change frequency.

Application Accepted for Filing -640 XC

■ DTAD -TJniversity of Oklahom a. Norman, Ck la. - modification of construction permit
(BP-6085, as modified, which authorized installation ox new vertical antenna
and mount Fii antenna on yl tower, installation of new transmitter and change in
transmitter location) for extension of completion date.

Application Returncd-1110 NC

WMBI-Tho Noody Bible Institute o f Ch icago. Chicago , Ill. - Authority to determine
operating power by direct measurement of antenna power, (1110 he) INCOMPLETE

FCC AC TIONS (AIPLITUDE 1 O DU LATI OU T COLLEGE, U NmRSITY,_

Modificat io n of CP’s Grante d - 850 NC

URUF - Un iversity o f F lorida , G ainesvi lle. F la. - Granted modification of CP
to make changes in the directional antenna system and mount the FI. antenna on
the N.E. AM tower, change type and location of transmitter, and change studio
location. (BMP-3733)

Secret arial Action - 1250 NC

KPAC-Port Art hur C ollege, Port Ar thu r, Texas - Granted license covering increase
in power, installation of new transmitter and change in transmitter location
(BL-3351)

BOX SCORE ON EDUCATI ON AL TELEVISION . STATIONS

Applications for a T elevis ion Station:

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Concordia College (Missouri Synod)St.Loui;
Harding College, Memphis, Tennessee State University of Iowa, Iowa City, la.

Construct ion Permits for Tele vision Station :

Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa (Regular) Kansas State College, Manhattan,

Kansas (Exp.)

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FEDERAL COl'TDNICATIONS COMMISSION

November 1, 1948 »JS—APPLICATIONS—ACTIONS December 7, 1948

EDUCATIONAL

PRS-MARBC ENGINEERING CONFERENCES TO BE HELD

An informal engineering conference to discuss matters pertinent to preparation for
the Forth American Regional Broadcasting Conference scheduled to be convened next
September(1949) will be held in the Auditorium of the National Museum, Constitu¬
tion Avenue at 10th Street in Washington D.C., starting December 7, and continuing
for about three days. The purpose of the conference will be to assist in the
preparation of proposals of the United States to be circulated to other partici¬
pating countries before May 2, 1949. Any licensee or other person interested in
standard band broadcasting is invited to attend and participate.

ILLUSTRAT I VE TELEVISION AND FK CHANNEL S TUDIES ISSUES

Two studies on effects of tropospheric interference on television broadcast
coverage and a similar study on FM, are now available from the -CC 1 s Office of
Information. The studies are for illustrative purposes only, and are not propos¬
als. The Commission has also announced that additional engineering conferences
on Docket Fos. 8975, 8736 and 9175, dealing with revision of the television and
FM engineering standards will be held November 30, and December 1 and 2.

ORAL ARGUMENT ON PROPOSED MULTIPLE OWNERSHIP RULINGS

The FCC has ordered the holding of oral argument on its proposed rules relating
to multiple ownership of AM, FM, and Television stations. The argument will be
held January 17, 1949 in Room 6121, New Post Office Building.

EDITORIAL AMENDMENTS TO PART 12 of the FCC RULES

A number of editorial changes have been made in Part 12 (paragraph 62) of the ^FCC
Rules, governing amateur radio service. The changes do not make any substantive
amendments,

GOLDSMITH ASKS FCC TO REMOVE 500 FOOT LB IT ON TV ANTENNA

Removal of the present 500-foot limit on TV antenna towers was urged in late
November by Dr, T. T. Goldsmith of Dumont in an engineering conference on tropo¬
spheric effects before the FCC, His proposal followed general agreement among
FCC and industry engineers that tower height does not appear to increase inter¬
ference between stations,

Marcus Colin, general counsel, National Association of Broadcasters, presented
a special petition to the FCC in late November on behalf of five daytime
stations, asking the FCC to abandon its flat rule against further STA's*

The petition, stating that the FCC has already honored its.own rule on STA's
more in the breach than in the observance, quoted conflicting reasoning on
various STA and special-time decisions.

The five day-time stations included WNYC, New York City Municipal stationjWl'IAI
University of Oklahoma in Norman,- WHCU, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y,;

WKAR, Michigan State College, East Lansing; and ¥01, Iowa State College, Ames,

FCC APPLI CATI ONS (FREQUENCY MODULAT ION) ~ COLI E GE, U I' IVIbR SITY, f^ITUTIOML

Exten si on of CP Date

W THS- Technical H igh School, Dado Co unty Boa r d of Public In struction, Miami, F la.-
Modification of construction permit (B3-PED-79, as modified) which authorized
a new noncommercial educational FM broadcast station, for extension of completion
data.

Extension of CP Date

TI UOA-Thc Board of Trustees of the Univ er sity of Al ab ama, T uscaloos a, A la, - Modifi¬
cation of construction permit (BPED-83, as modified, which authorized a new FM
noncommercial educational broadcast station) for extension of completion date.

License to Cover CP

TJFYE-Board of Education , C ity of Hew York, N.Y. - License to cover construction per¬
mit (BPED-72, as modified)" which authorized a new non-commercial educational FM
broadcast station,

CP Modification

WJUI!"Junto, Inc,, Philadelphia, Pa. - Modification of construction permit (BPED-63,
as modified), which authorized a new FM broadcast station for extension of com¬
pletion date.

CP Modification

KTQY-Tacoma Sc hoo l Dist ri ct ITo. Ton, Tacoma, TT ash i n r ;t on - Modification of construct¬
ion permit (BPED-96) which authorized a new non-commercial educational FI broadcast
station to change type of transmitter cud make changes in antenna system (Resubmitted)

CP For New S t ation

MEW-Board of Trustees, Free Public Library, Lou is ville, M y. (P.0. 331-333 Library
Place) - Construction permit for a new noncommercial FM educational broadcast
station to be operated on 88.1 me., Channel #201, with power of 10 watts*

CP For Now Station

ITew-Forth Fort Worth Bantist Church. Fort Forth. Texas, (P.Q . 15 > 19 Boulevard) -
Construction permit for a new noncommercial FM' educational broadcast station to be
operated on 88 me., Channel #201 . with power of 10 watts.

Application for CP

UKAR-FlH'ichirran State College. East Lansing, i ich.- Construction permit to re¬
instate (B2-PED-69, as modified) which authorized a new noncommercial FM broadcast
station, which expired Juno 15, 1948.

Modification of CP

KALTI- Bo ard of Education of the San Francisco Unified Schoo l D istrict. San Francisc o,
Calif. - i odification of construction permit (B5-PED-64 ? as modified) which authorized
a new noncommercial educational FM broadcast station, for extension of completion .
date.

Modification o f CP

UTAD-FI'j-State University of Oklahoma. Norman, Okla . - Modification of Construction
permit (B3-P3D-41? as modified) which authorized a new noncommercial educational
broadcast station, for extension of completion date.

C onstructi on Permi t For Nov / F M Sta t io ns

Los An gelos Cou nty Supt. of Schools, Los Angeles, Calif.- Granted CP for a now
station^ 89.1 me. (No. 206 ); 1,5 Kl'J; antenna 2920 ft. (BPED-90).

FM Channel An d Antenna C hange

UOI-FM-Io wa State Collogo of Agr, and Mechanic Arts. Amos, Iona - To change from
91.3 me. (No. 217), to 90,1 me, (No.211); power from 8.3 KH to 15.5 Kw, and
antenna from 520 to 530 ft. (BIPED-143)

Lice nse Rene wal

KCRU-S anta M oni ca School B oa rd, Santa Mon ica, Calif.- Granted renewal of license
for the period ending June 1, 1950,

License Renewal

Tr BG0 -Thc Boar d of E du cati on of New ar k in the County.of Essex,. NcwarkjJi.jJ. - Granted

renewal of license for the period ending September 1, 1949»

License Renew al

MFUV-Fordham Univers ity. Now York. N»Y. - Granted renewal of license of noncommercial
educational FM station for period ending September 1, 1949 (BRED-7)

Application Dismissed

The Bible Institute o f Los Angelos, Inc., Los Angel os, Calif. - Granted petition to
dismiss without prejudice its application (BPED-74? Docket 9073).

CP Modification

UHSF-Statc o f W isconsin. State Radio Council. Madison , Mis. - Granted modification
of CP to change frequency to '91.9 me (Channel 220) ? in noncommercial educational
FM station (BIPED-150).

CP For New Station

Deoauw University, Greencastle, Ind, - Granted CP for now station| channel 201, 88.1
me"; 10 watts. (BPED-91). Estimated cost, $1,975.

CP Modification

KTOY-Tacom a Scho ol Distri ct N o. Ten, Tacom a, Nash . - granted modification of CP
to change type of transmitter and make changes in the antenna system (BIPED-151).

CP Modification

WJUN-Philadolp h ia. Pa - Granted modification of CP for extension of couple tion date
to 5-27-49 (BIPED-152)

CP Modificati on

UUOA, Tusc aloos a , Ala- Granted modification of CP for extension of completion date
to 5-27-49. (B1 FED-153).

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UFIVERSITY OF HAWAII ORGANISES RADIO WORK

Sporadic broadcasts over commercial stations have been made by the University of
Hawaii for many years. But under the impetus of Thomas bickerson, University of
Publications Editor, and others, Dr. Henry I. Eubank of the University of Wisconsin
came to Honolulu and spent one semester, surveying the possibilities of radio at
Hawaii. In a lengthy recommendation-report (which many NAEB members would find
intensely interesting and useful), Dr. Ewbank encouraged the University to organ¬
ize its broadcasting activity under one head, to increase the classes in radio to
be offered, and to increase its time on the air.

As a result of all this. Dr. Melvin R. White, who will be remembered by some of
you as a former vice-president of the NAEB during his years at KWSC, and as Direct¬
or of the University Broadcasting Service at Indiana University before the war
and Skornia, has been appointed Coordinator of Radio Services and .Associate
Professor of Speech. With the assistance of a committee of deans and professors,
ho is supervising the building of new studios, and putting into effect Dr. Ewbank’s
suggestions.

Thus far, the following broadcasts are given over four of the five local commercial
outlets:

Time

Station

Program

Type

Srt. a.m,

S;30-8:45

KP0A

Hawaii Town and Country

Homemailing & Agric

Sat. p.m.
12:15-12:30

KULA

Island Homemakers Review

Homemaldng

Sat. p,m 0

12 :45~1:00

KG1 B & Network

Agricultural News

Agriculture

Sun. a.m.
8:00-8:15

KH0H

Better Farrs and Homes

Consumer Education

Sun. a.m.
10:00-10:15

KGMB & Network

Agricultural News

Agriculture

Sun. p.m.
7:30-8:00

KP0A

University on the Air

General

Wed. & Fri.
6:35-6:40

KH0N & Network

Market Reports

Agriculture

Thurs, p.m.
4:30-4:45

KH0N & Network

Ask the Professor

General

Thurs p.m,.
6:30-6:45

KULA

U. of H. Radio Workshop

General

In short, the University of Hawaii has eight different broadcasts on the air week¬
ly, a total of one hour and forty-five minutes. Five of these are agricultural
and homemaking in nature, whereas the other three consist of forums, musical shows,
dramatic shows, student talent and faculty talent. It is planned that in January
1949, a weekly thirty-minute faculty forum will be presented in addition to the
shows already aired, and other programs are being given consideration, such as
’’Your Speech” series to help improve the general speech standards of the Islands.

Classes to be offered as part of the Speech curriculum include ”Introduction to
Radio”, ’’Radio Production,” "Radio Workshop,” "Radio Writing,” and "Advanced Radio
Writing.” In addition to these, two courses are offered the general public on
a non-credit basis: "Planning and Broadcasting of radio Programs" and "Radio
Announcing and Acting."

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WHAT IS THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUC AT IONA L BROADCAST'S?

HOW DOES IT SERVE EDUCATIONAL RADIO ?

The National Association of Educational Broadcasters during the past three years
has steadily increased its number of active and associate institutions and
individuals to a total of rore than 95 members in 32 states, Hawaii, and the
District of Columbia.

N-A-E-B represents the non-commercial educational AM and FM radio stations,
workshops, and production centers owned and operated by colleges, universities
and public service agencies.

N-A-E-B represented 9 member stations in Cloar Channel hearings before the Federal
Communications Commission in 1947-48, appeared before the Senate Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee hearings on the Johnson Bill in 1948, and has had
observers and participants in the FCC Mayflower hearings, the newly-formed Univer¬
sity Association for Professional Radio Education, the FCC television hearings,
and numerous conferences and radio meetings*

N-A-E-B sponsored a special session at the Ohio Institute for Education by Radio
and maintain liaison relationships with the School Broadcast Conference, the
Association for Education by Radio, the Federal Radio Education Committee of
the Office of Education, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British
Broadcasting Corporation and the North American Service of Radio Diffusion.

N-A-E-B, acting through its central office and regional directors lias supplied
through correspondence and by special consultant trips a free-consulting service
to members and to colleges and universities establishing or planning to establish
for the first time their own broadcast outlets either AM or FM.

Complete detail on membership in the N-A-E-B may be
obtained by contacting N. I* Griffith, Secretary -
Treasurer, Station WOI, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa*

The N-A-E-B has regional directors who are ready and willing to extend informa¬
tion and advice to prospective educational broadcasters or to answer questions on j
membership and policy. Their names and locations:

Seymour Siegel
Graydon Ausmus
Harry Skornia
Irving Merrill
Ralph Steetle
James Morris

REGION I
REGION II
REGION III
REGION IV
REGION V
REGION VI

Station UNYC
Station WUOA
Station WFIU
Station KUSD
Station WLSU
Station KOAC

Municipal Bdcst. System, New York City
University of Alabama, University, Ala. '
Indiana Univers ity, Bloomington, Ind. j
University of South Dakota,Vermillion
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge ;
Oregon State College, Corvallis, Ore. j

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY - M. S. Novik, Room 370, Fifth Avenue, New York City

GENERAL COUNSEL - Marcus Colin, Evans Building, Washington, D.C.

DIRECTOR OF STUDIES - Dallas Smythe, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
LIAISON OFFICE - John Dunn, WNAD, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla*

- Richard B. Hull, WOI, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa

CENTRAL OFFICE

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Remarks by Benjamin Cottons , jSeaorai Counsel for the
Federal Communications Commission,, to members of the
National Association of Educational Broadcasters at
their annual meeting October lZ e 1948.

I hsv© been asked to convey to you the Commission 9 s regrets that non© of
the Commissioners -was able to be tore c The entire Commission has been en¬
gaged for the past five days in an important hearing which Is expected to
run for several days more. But their absenoe should not be taken as a lack
of appreciation of the importance of meetings of this kindo

I a®, however,, delighted to have th© opportunity to b© here* Your President *
Mr* Bull, has suggested that I apeak frankly to you about some Commission
problems that concern you* and u®„ 1 welcome this suggestion* and 1 shall

speak frankly and freely to you exempt on those matters which are presently
awaiting decisions by the Commission* I wish first to discuss certain pro¬
blems in which I know you are interested* and then give *ay mm views about
the immediate future of educational broadcasting in the light of th© broad
problems facing th© Commission*

CLEAR CHANNEL HEARINGS

First* a word about the clear channel hearings* 1 bring this up not because
X want to but because I know you expect m s to* Many of you operate daytime
stations on clear channels and hence have an active interest in this vener¬
able, s but yet unresolved* proceeding. I am familiar’ with the testimony of
your representatives before th® Commission itself and more recently before
the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commero© which* under the
resolution of Senator Johnson* inquired, into this matter* Aa you may know *
as a resu lt of this hearing the proposed l^hite Bill contains a provision

limiting clear channel stations to &Q kw power, Bie Commission, in antici¬

pation of a coming confer©nog on g. renewal of the North jfa a erioan Regional
Broadoastlng Agreement is now working up its f i adiags and conclusions on

this Tlighly controversial issue e 'Atom this report will be is sued f what it

will contain and the" meaning it will have for your group I unfortunately am
unable to discuss at this time* It is a complex problem with both national
and international considerations thoroughly intertwinedo

SPECIAL NIGHTTIME AUTHORITY

Imagine a Yankee compelled to defend the civil rights program at a Mssiss-
ippi convention of states’ rights Democrats and you can* in some measure*
appreciate the frame of mind in which I approach ray next subject* I refer,
of course* to the Commission 5, s recent order abolishing special temporary

authorizations. Here* alas* X cannot duck behind the protective iv&ll of
"this matter is awaiting Commission decision."

Seriously, I oan appreciate the reaction to this order of those of you
who operate daytime AH station©« I know that for many years the STAs have
on oocasion been a small solace when the sun went down* I think you de¬
serve some discussion of this action 0

When the Commission decided to re-write its rule on STAs* it had been faced
with a serious problem of orderly administration. As a result of the great
increase in the number of daytime stations after the war* we were daily be¬
ing besieged with great volumes of eleventh hour requests for authority to
broadcast so-called special ©vents programs.

How you must bear in mind that th© previous rule providing for STAs was it¬
self merely a procedural device. It reserved to the Commission a measure
of latitude to waive or disregards if you will* soma substantive rule or
prohibition where good cause was shown or undue hardship to the public might
otherwise result in particular oases*

But in the light of th© post-war developments * the oaso-by-oase method of
sifting the meritorious from the unmeritorious requests was rapidly break¬
ing down into a hit-or-miss proposition* It was becoming impossible to dis¬
tinguish the one from the other. If you were sitting in our place 9 I think
you too would have almost thrown up your hands in dismay.

VI© have never been able to develop a reasonable standard for judging th©
merits of particular requests for STAs n or has one ever bee n, suggested to us 0
How thia may sound to you like a serious™admission of the i^&knoss or futility
of the administrative process„ But reflect on the fact that basically the
STA itself was a method by which an exception was made to an established policy
or standardo I think you will see how anomalous it was for th© Commission to
be granting so many exception® to the rules that the rules themselves were be¬
coming exceptions* You will probably say that under these circumstancea* tn©
rule limiting certain stations on clear channels to daytime operations should
have been given a decent burial and revered in memory only. But if we had
taken that position* w© would have met ourselves coming around the corner be¬
cause w© were having th© clear channel proceeding in which we were trying to
dooid© whether that rule should be killed and buried*

TELEVISION AND EDUCATION

A word on television* The Commission as you kno w has presently been hold -

iag hearings on the ^' poasibi litis s of expansion into the 476* to 890 megacycle

oand. Chairman Co y in a speech last July at tha University of Indiana—in-

oidentally a thoroughly meaty speech on education and radio which I recommend
that you all read-sur ged educators to request space in this band . I know
Dick Hull* your President—ha 3 written the Commission in this respect and I
understand that at this meeting you are considering what action you will take*

I think you should take particular note of the advice whioh the Chairman

py.vo about television in that a pee oh .

FM AMD EDUCATION

How as to FM . I would be less than frank if X told you the FM frequen ¬

cies got "aside for your exclusive us© i n the 1945 allocation plan were
inviolate . They are not .. The Commission, as those of you who follow

our own releases and the trade press are well aware, is under enormous
and daily increasing pressure to give additional space in the spectrum
to many diverse services, both commercial and non-commercial, Taxioabs,
power companies, newspapers, police departments p railroads, utilities*, and
©van grave diggers are oaoh crying to be served. Indeed, as I have already
indicated, the reason the Chairman is not her© today is the necessity of
his presiding over a lQ~day hearing at which the conflicting interests of
such groups and many others are being passionately aired,?

We cannot possibly fully sotiafy the demands of all of those seeking fre¬
quencies, even for worthwhile purposes. Many will necessarily bo dis¬
appointed. Despite the great technological advances of recent years, there
are not yet enough frequencies to satisfy the demand? Under these circum¬
stances this question naturally arises g Sow long before the disappointed
ones will covetously eye the rich untapped veins between 88 and 92 mega¬
cycles? In large measure, that depends on you.

Most of the interests clamoring for .frequencies are articulate, resouroeful ,
and well organised. They know what they wa nt?, t hey know how to make a com¬

pelling and persuasive appeal. And it cannot "be denied that many oi their
requests are clearly in the public interest? happily, educators, though

with leas physical resources at their commano, are still able to present a

strong case for their band. Ho on*? yet denies that education is in the

pubiio Interest. Unhappily, on the other hand, comparatively few educators

and trustees of universities and state legislators yet seem to realize that

eduo atlonaT rad ic als'id the pubiio interest? Consequently, the case for re¬

serving frequencies does not have the force it should 0

Here I wish again to refer to Chairman Coy's recent speech at Indiana Univer¬
sity. He gave this warnings - " I must point out that radio channels are too
valuable to be left in idleness. If educators fail to utilize them, they wi ll

have lost their second, and perhaps last chance to own and operate radio stations

I recall that Mr c Fly shortly before he left the Commission made a similar state
ment end I know Cliff Durr more recently has expressed like views.

These words are harshly realistic 0 They are*.. 1 realize*, addressed in part to
the wrong group. I should*, perhaps, be making these remarks to the large num¬
ber of persons in or associated with education whose shocking inertia or lack
of interest in the face of a great and socially obligatory responsibility
threatens to bring such a tragedy to pass. But the warnings must necessarily
be addrosaed to you. In this field you are both tho vanguard and the mission¬
aries. You know and have demonstrated the educational value to our democracy

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of this now and powerful medium. It therefor© fall© upon you to sell it
to your laggard or comatose colleagues.

Don’t think I am unaware of* or insensitive to* the heart-breaking ob¬
stacles you face in this job - or to the tremendous efforts you have made
and are making to overcome them. The Commission’e keen awareness of your
problems oan be gathered ,rom Mr, Coy’s Bloomington speech. 1 am* there¬
fore „ deliberately refraining from going over them,-,

The Commission has recen tl y done something which may help you in the to ugh

job of expanding eduoati ona 1 FM, j have^in"mind"the recently adopted rules

permitting educational Isfoadc^ IQ watts or less

These regulations make it poasibll^^ plant°Tt"a nominal cost

in whioh educational broadcastlag techniques and the training of personnel

may ‘be deve lopedo.Syra'ous las you know., has been operating; with

■Mbwo^and a half watt FM transmitter for more "than a year on an experimental

license« Thi s service* 1 understands reaohes approximately 15*600 students

and possibly a like numb er of Syracuse residents, it may be installed for

little '^ore than the cost o? n bo- cqli'ad 'o^pua^FlsTred radio. BePatrn

University an d three ot hers in addition to Syracuse have already applied for

construot ion ponal t e for this type of operation,, * I hope you will encourage

others quickly to follow suit e

In speaking of this low power service 1 emphasise the use of the word pilot
plante I am sure I cun safe in saying that the Commission does not consider
suoh doll^sised ooffeepots the equivalent of a full fledged eduoational
broadcasting system - or as in any way meeting the need it had in mind when
it adopted the frequency reservation plan for non^oommeroial educational
broadcastings It is tho Commission’s hope that these low power authorise®
tions will enable educators to give those upon whom they are dependent for
funds a praotioal demonstration of the potential of the radio medium a s a
mighty instrument for defending educations’ hori*ons 0 In short* the Commis¬
sion views them distinctly as a means end not as ends in themselves. The
Commission* I am sure,, would be loath to see suoh low power stations develop

into little more than training oenters for ootmaerciai broadcasting personnel o

FGO ATTITUDE TOMRD JSDUCATIQ5

Without blowing our horn too much* 1 think I oan say thefc by and large the

Comalssion has at the mome nt done about as muoh as it oan for non-c^mcroia 1

educations 1 broadcasting. Yes - the STA rule notwit he tandi ng. ifre have set

aside a block of most desirable frequencies for your exclusive use; we have

for your benefit made a;i exception to our ruloa by authorizing low power FM

broadcasting o ton haW been encouraged to seek a plaoe ol your own in the

reoessea of upstairs television-. There are* I'll grant you, some further
actions we might take that* X venture to say, might not be entirely displeas¬
ing to some of you 0 But for the most pert I think you’ll agree that in recent
years your demands have been largely met, V»here they are still pending*
others are in the same boat* In this respect* at least* you haven’t been
discriminated against 0

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WHAT EDUCATORS SHOULD DO

In brief, I think you mow have the ball* It ia up to you to call the

running playa, Within your own bailiwicks you have done exemplary jobs *

You have demonstratod clearly the vital Toros radio as an instrument for

education ors." pi ay~ in a nation that cries for ed ucation and unbiased in-

formation. But I wond©7"wh©tfeer you have sufficiently paraded your ex¬

amples of what can be dona with this instrument before the great majority
of schools and universities that appear blind to its potentialities*

I also wonder whether you have fully explored. Congressional avenues to

determine what he l p,- if any, can be there given the development of edu ¬

cational broadcasting , The Congress has from time to times by its notions
expressed great interest not only in education but in educational broad¬
casting as wello la fact, its concern was such that it wrote into the
Communications Act of 1934 as amended a provision instructing the Commis¬
sion to "study the proposal that Congress by statute allocate fixed per-
oentages of radio broadcasting facilities to particular types or kinds of
non-profit radio programs or to persons identified with partioular types
or kinds of non-profit activities. 0 I refer to this provision not to re¬
call to you the* to my mind* not altogether happy results of the Commis¬
sion’ o study under this mandat®., but to stress again Congress’s concern
with your problems 0

WHERE EDUCATORS FAIL

I wonder further how much attention you have paid to such bodies as the
President’s Commission on Higher Education. I believe I am correct in
stating that certain members of this Commission are also presidents of
universities represented in your membership* It is unfortunate that a
recent report of this Commission, strikingly setting forth the alarming
and growing educational bottlenecks in oar country, as well as the shock¬
ing number of our oitisens to wnom adequate educational facilities are not
yet available* made only passing reference to the use of radio in educations

In conclusion, I wish to assure you that the Commission will oont5.au© to try
to assist you in both small and large ways. We etand ready with engineering
and legal personnel to help any legitimate educational organisation, not only
in acquainting them with our requirements and procedures but in helping them
with the necessarily detailed job of preparing their applications 0 I hop©
you in turn will frequently call upon us, the staff as wo11 as the Commission,
and to keep us informed of what you are doing. I look forward to the day when
a representative of the HAEB can be reached as easily an Washington as a rep -

resoatative of the HAB*

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